Invasion Point

Invasion Point is the first mission in the Section 8 campaign during the opening of the Battle of New Madrid with the USIF against the Arm of Orion. The level opens with a cutscene with the USIF Fleet taking fire from an Orbital Cannon Facility on the ground and the U.S.I.S. Texas deploying a Sky Crane containing the First Recon, Section 8 to eliminate threats to the fleet. The then Private Alex Corde, and his squad, led by Sergeant Hawthorne, burns-in to enemy territory and under heavy AA fire to capture the Orbital Cannon facility. They land safely and managed to take the facility by hacking the Cannon Control without any loses. Then the squad attacks an ammo storage to stop supplies to other facilities. Destroying the generators and stopping the rail system, Corde and Hawthorne proceeds to once again silence the Orbital Cannon for the Arm has found a way to reactivate the one they had captured. While a "top commander" of the Arm was suspected at being at a nearby Communications Relay so Ireland and Deacon, the other members of the squad, were sent to "search and destroy" the Comms Relay. After destroying the generators that power the cannons at a separate, nearby location, Hawthorne and Corde lost contact with Ireland and Deacon after they reported they were ambushed at the Comms Relay by a Heavy Armor and Hawthorne reports to General Stone them as KIA. They were then informed that former USIF and now ARM Commander Soren was behind the ambush. Alex and Hawthorne arrives at the relay and requested extractration when Soren orders a SilverbackHeavy Armor to kill them. The Heavy throws Hawthorne to the ground and shoots and kills him. After Corde destroys it, he is extracted to rendezvous with General Stone.

Transcript

{Cutscene}

U.S.I.S. Utah Officer(COM): This is the U.S.I.S. Utah, under heavy fire! Our shields are almost gone!

Fades into the USIF Fleet with a heavily damaged ship, the USIS Roosevelt, being shot at from the planet in the background.